Joanna Macy on The Great Turning
The Club of Rome and sustainable development
By Umberto Colombo
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, Italy
Tel.: +39-064744359; fax: +39-064824111.
E-mail address: umcolombo [at] tin.it (U. Colombo).
Abstract
What remains of The limits to growth after 25 years? What impact would it have in the next 25 years? This essays attempts to answer these questions by examining the notions of sustainability and eco-technologies.
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Forty Years Later. The Reception of the Limits to Growth in Italy, 1971-1974
Luigi Piccioni1
Dipartimento di Economia e Statistica,
Università della Calabria, Ponte Bucci 0C, 87036 Arcavacata di Rende, Italy
www.ecostat.unical.it/Piccioni
email: l.piccioni [at] unical.it
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Contents
1. The planetary success of an unusual work
2. On the origins of The Limits
3. Positive opinions and relaunching efforts
4. Economic discipline, between disorientation and rejection
5. The Catholic Church, from the initial interest to the clash on [...]
Rob Hopkins–My Town in Transition
Rob Hopkins is the co-founder of Transition Town Totnes and of the Transition Network. Through speaking, teaching, and writing, he has introduced the idea of making the places we live more resilient, robust, and imaginative in increasingly uncertain times through intentional effort at the community level. The Transition Town movement, which Rob originally started in Totnes, England, has now spread to hundreds of towns across thirty-four countries. [...]
